Bradys Smile
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262485472
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fairfield, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2036902004
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,265
- Expenses
- $72,666
- Assets
- $126,583
- Liabilities
- $5,693
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anne Hinton (President)
People named in this filing
- Anne Hinton (President)
- Matthew Hinton (Treasurer)
- Denise Flegal (Board of Directors)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Brady's Smile, Inc. was organized exclusively for charitable purposes. Specifically, Brady's Smile, Inc. will promote, improve, protect and sustain the health, emotional well-being and social development of children in need, including children suffering from illness or disability, children at risk and under served children. It is our goal to help in the following ways: 1) Help make life easier in the newborn and pediatric intensive care facilities for patients and their families; 2) Provide financial assistance to defray medical expenses; and 3) Establish and grant scholarships to educational institutions benefiting children in need. In 2025, Brady's Smile's programs serve patients mainly in pediatric and newborn Intensive Care Units ("ICU") in 41 pediatric hospitals across 18 states.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our Comfort Bags program provides basic essentials to caregivers and toys to babies and children who are in the ICU of children's hospitals. Our bags include items such as toiletries, a pen, paper, snacks, stuffed animals and toys. In 2025, we also added a new "Arts and Crafts" bag for the Emergency Departments which includes playdoh, coloring book, crayons, slime and a craft. Our comfort bag program also includes special holiday bags as well. We provide holiday bags for Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween and stockings for Christmas. During 2025, Brady's Smile distributed 1,947 comfort bags to families in the hospital.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 99% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.5%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.74; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.5% of revenue deployed · 82.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.